Melancholy Quotes - page 4

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. (Martin McDonagh)
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. View quote
Osamu Dazai
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying. View quote
Jane Goldman
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. View quote
Jean Rhys
I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story? View quote
Jude Watson
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be. View quote
Elif Batuman
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. View quote
Amelia Barr
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy. View quote
Dodie Smith
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. View quote
Anne Stevenson
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. (Arielle Dombasle)
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. View quote
Chantal Kreviazuk
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? View quote
Hugh Mackay
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations. View quote
Joseph Howe
One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically. View quote
Lee Radziwill
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness. View quote
Mathieu Amalric
A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy. View quote
Stephan Jenkins
Diabetes is caused by melancholy. View quote
Thomas Willis
It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning Beneath dark clouds along the horizon rolled, Till the slant sunbeams through the fringes raining Bathe all the hills in melancholy gold. View quote
Sarah Helen Whitman
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. (Maurice Chevalier)
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. View quote
David Guterson
The start of work means the end to freedom, but also to doubt, intensity and wayward desires. The accountant's ten thousand possibilities have been reduced to an agreeable handful. She has a business card which she hands over in meetings and which tells other people-and, more meaningfully perhaps, reminds her-that she is a Business Unit Senior manager, rather than a vaporous transient consciousness in an incidental universe. How satisfying it is to be held in check by the assumptions of colleagues, instead of being forced to contemplate, in the loneliness of the early hours, all that one might have been and now never will be. ... Life is no longer mysterious, sad, haunting, touching, confusing or melancholy; it is a practical stage for clear-eyed action. View quote
Alain de Botton
How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which radical evil gets its innings and takes its solid turn. The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. If you protest, my friend, wait till you arrive there yourself! ... Here on our very hearths and in our gardens the infernal cat plays with the panting mouse, or holds the hot bird fluttering in her jaws. Crocodiles and rattlesnakes and pythons are at this moment vessels of life as real as we are; their loathsome existence fills every minute of every day that drags its length along; and whenever they or other wild beasts clutch their living prey, the deadly horror which an agitated melancholiac feels is the literally right reaction on the situation. View quote
William James